Late July

Annie the dachshund killed two of the guineas. Connie White-Wattles and Connie Middle-Wattles. My fault – I failed to protect my birds.

Annie is now required to lay two eggs a day, eat grasshoppers and cry, "buckWHEAT!" I am trying not to hate her.

We have pickles! C. has put up the first batch of bread-and-butter pickles, made with our onions and summer squash. And we should have lots of cucumbers coming on, so it might be a pickle year.